URI Module "return_content" not working per the docs

[Glenn Barnard]

We're evaluating Ansible and learning how to use it. I'm trying to using Ansible to call the Ansible api's. I have an issue with the uri module in trying to reference the response from the authtoken API to use in subsequent requests. Per the docs, the return_content option is supposed to put the json response in the dictionary with the name json. I'm ASSUMING the dictionary is the repository for variables. So, when these tasks run, the second one throws an error saying that the json varaible does not exist. 

Can someone tell me how I can reference the response as a variable?

The tasks I wrote is:

  - uri: 

      url:  https://10.0.0.4/api/v1/authtoken/

      method: POST

      HEADER_Content-Type: application/json  

      body: '{ "username" : "myusername", "password" : "mypassword" }'

      validate_certs: no

      return_content: yes

      register: authentication

  

  - uri: 

      url:  https://10.0.0.4/api/v1/users/

      method: GET

      HEADER_Authorization: TOKEN {{ json.token }} 

      validate_certs: no

      return_content: yes

[Matt Martz]

Instead of json.token you need to reference the variable that you registered.  Such as:

authentication.json.token

`json` is a key off of the registered var from the task.

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[Glenn Barnard]

Thanks Matt....A sivel star to you!

On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 10:35:26 AM UTC-5, Matt Martz wrote:

Instead of json.token you need to reference the variable that you registered.  Such as:

authentication.json.token

`json` is a key off of the registered var from the task.

On Friday, January 8, 2016, Glenn Barnard <barnar...@gmail.com> wrote:

We're evaluating Ansible and learning how to use it. I'm trying to using Ansible to call the Ansible api's. I have an issue with the uri module in trying to reference the response from the authtoken API to use in subsequent requests. Per the docs, the return_content option is supposed to put the json response in the dictionary with the name json. I'm ASSUMING the dictionary is the repository for variables. So, when these tasks run, the second one throws an error saying that the json varaible does not exist. 

Can someone tell me how I can reference the response as a variable?

The tasks I wrote is:

  - uri: 

      url:  https://10.0.0.4/api/v1/authtoken/

      method: POST

      HEADER_Content-Type: application/json  

      body: '{ "username" : "myusername", "password" : "mypassword" }'

      validate_certs: no

      return_content: yes

      register: authentication

  

  - uri: 

      url:  https://10.0.0.4/api/v1/users/

      method: GET

      HEADER_Authorization: TOKEN {{ json.token }} 

      validate_certs: no

      return_content: yes

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